Saarang 2008

Buzzer Quiz Finals

1) The audio is the Instrumental version of
the anthem of a certain country. However,
most people not in this country don’t know
that this is not the anthem, in fact they
think it is something else. i.e. in general
people were found to believe that
something else was the anthem of this
country. Identify the country and put
Fundaes.
Audio
ans
The Song ‘Eidelweiss’, made famous by
‘The Sound of Music’.
2) Identify the person on the right in this picture
Frank William Abagnale Jr
3) This phrase originated from the following poem in 1917
by Fred W Leigh and Charles Collins

‘Why am I _____________,
____________________?
Ding! Dong! Wedding Bells,
______________________.
But one fine day –
Please let it be soon –
I shall wake up in the morning
_____________________.’

This phrase however became popular only after a 1929

advertisement by Listerine mouth-wash, which
essentially said that “ ____” happens, because you don’t
use listerine mouth wash.
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride
4) Connect the following companies which form
an exhaustive list..
These are the companies which have single letter ticker
codes on the NYSE (arranged in order)
A: Agilent Technologies
B: Barnes Group
C: Citigroup
D: Dominion Resources
E: Eni SpA
F: Ford Motor Company
G: Genpact
H: Realogy Corp.
K: Kellogg
M: Macy's, Inc.
O: Realty Income Corporation
Q: Qwest Communications International Inc.
R: Ryder System Inc.
S: Sprint Nextel
T: AT&T X: United States Steel
Y: Alleghany Corporation
5) Chang and Eng Bunker were brothers born
to Chinese father Ti-eye and a half-
Chinese/half-Malay mother Nok. At a young
age they joined P T Barnum’s circus, where
they performed in an act together. This act
was billed as the ‘____ _____ act” and this
gave rise to a popular phrase which has
been used extensively since. However in
recent times, it has come to be considered a
pejorative phrase and hence its use has
decreased.

Which phrase are we talking about?

They were born in 1811 in Siam, and gave
rise to the term Siamese twins. They are
probably one of the most famous
examples of cojoined twins, who are
commonly called Siamese twins.
6) Over the last 2-3 years, taking pictures in this
particular posture has gained immense popularity.
People take photos in this posture and upload it on the
net, infact there is even a website dedicated to this,
inviting people to send in their pics of them in this
posture. Pics shown in the next slide. Usually people
take pictures of them pointing to other people when
they are in some embarrassing position – like being
drunk or vomiting into the toilet (next slide). Taking
photographs like this is known as ‘Doing a ______’Put
Fundaes on this..
• This posture of taking a photograph is called
'Doing a Lynndie', from the infamous pic below...

Pvt Lynndie England

7) When a certain gene is deleted from the
DNA of the Drosophila fly, the fly is found
to be formed without external genitalia.
What is the name given to this gene?
This T Shirt which said _____(heart) ____
was a fairly popular Tshirt. However in
2006, sales of the shirt plummeted and the
only way the makers were able to cut their
losses was by crossing out the “hearts”
writing “Dumped” instead. Fill in the blanks
The Ken Gene – from ken in barbie, always
made without external genitalia.
8) MVC – complete list.
The teams in the Premier Hockey league
Delhi Dazzlers
Bengal Tigers
Lucknow Nawabs
Imphal Rangers
Bangalore Hi-Fliers
Chandigarh Dynamos
Hyderabad Sultans
Sher-e-Jalandhar
Orissa Steelers
Maratha Warriors
Chennai Veerans
9. Connect these 5 sets of visuals
All phrases which mean there is no turning back, and that
you have no option but to go forward with whatever you
are doing :

1) Break the woks and sink the boats – from an order given by a
Chinese general to the soldiers so that there is no way to
return across a river crossed and they had to go forward
(which was instumental in them winning the war)
2) Burning bridges – similar to above – burn the bridge after
crossing it
3) Crossing the rubicon – when Caesar crossed it during his
invasion of Rome, war became inevitable
4) Point of no return – in airlines, both when fuel onboard is not
sufficient to return to point of origin (and you have to go
forward), and when there is no space left on runway to slow
down, the plane is commited to taking off.
5) “Alea Jacta est” – Caesar’s famous “the die has been cast”
saying
10) X, and integral part of Organization Y gets its name from
the title of a book by William Willoya and Vinson Brown. Z,
the founder of organization Y first read this book during a
voyage on the rough seas of the North pacific (where
incidentally the name Y too was coined). The book
describes what the authors say are Hopi prophecies of
warriors who would be mankind's key to survival. The
legend says these warriors would appear at a dark time
when the fish would die in the streams, the birds would fall
from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees
would no longer be; mankind as we know it would all but
cease to exist. Widely repeated accounts of the legend
recorded in the Naturegraph book say "They will be called
The _________, Protectors of the Environment." (the
blank is the title of the book).

Identify X,Y?
Greenpeace, The Rainbow Warrior – the
famous ship of Greenpeace

The book is Warriors of the Rainbow.

11) What are these toys called?
Beeblebears – after Zaphod Beeblebrox,
bears with an extra head and arm
• 12) This book, a collection of short stories for children was released
recently as a limited edition- only 7 copies were made, all handwritten
and illustrated by the author. They were leather bound and decorated
in silver and semi-precious stones. 6 were given away as gifts to the
author’s close friends, and the 7th was auctioned in Sotheby’s on 13th
Dec 2007 to raise money for ‘The Children’s Voice’ charity. It was
expected to raise £50,000, but raised £1,950,000 instead, bought by
London fine art dealers Hazlitt Gooden and Fox on behalf of
Amazon.com. The short stories in the book are :
• • "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"
• • "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"
• • "The Warlock's Hairy Heart"
• • "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump"
• • "The Tale of the Three Brothers"

Identify/put fundaes.
The Tales of Beetle the Bard, mentioned in
the Deathly Hallows. Rowling wrote this as
her ‘farewell’ to the series.
 ? ?

13) Fill in the blanks

The Man in the Iron Mask – by Alexandre
Dumas, about Louis XIV, the instrument is
an iron maiden (used to cover face and
body), inspired the name for the Band,
they have an album called Brave New
World, inspired by Huxley’s book.
14) Bob Simmons was a popular movie stuntman,
particularly for actor X. In one of X’s earliest
movies, one scene was added in the last moment
and X was unavailable for the shoot and so Bob
took his place. He used one of the oldest tricks to
cover facial features – wearing a hat. As they say,
the rest is history.

Identify the movie / X / Put Fundaes..

Sean Connery, Dr. No, The ever so famous
Gun Barrel Sequence. Bob Simmons is
the only non-Bond to act in the gun barrel
sequence, for the first 3 Bond movies.
15)Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a
psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological
sexual fascination with horses.
• Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving
a teenage boy who blinded six horses. He set out to construct a fictional
account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of
the details of the crime. The play is essentially a detective story, with the
psychiatrist trying to understand the cause of the boy's actions while
wrestling with his own sense of purpose.
• The play was originally staged at the Royal National Theatre at the Old
Vic in London in 1973. It was directed by John Dexter and starred Alec
McCowen as psychiatrist Martin Dysart and Peter Firth as Alan Strang,
the young patient. It was subsequently presented on Broadway at the
Plymouth Theatre with Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth.
• It was also made into a film of the same name in 1977.

Why has this play been in the news in the

last year or two?
This is the play in which Daniel Radcliffe
acted. He played the role of Alan String,
which required the character to appear
naked on stage, which did create a big
story.
16) Whose epitaph reads..
_____________
Beloved Wife
Born December 3, 1963
Departed this earth February 25, 1990
At peace March 31, 2005
(Pic of Dove with olive branch)
I kept my promise
Terri Schiavo
17) Hitoshi Igarashi, a Japanese translator was
stabbed to death on July 11th.
Ettore Capriolo, an italian translator was stabbed
and seriously injured in the same month.
William Nygaard, a Norweigian publisher
survived an assasination attempt in Oslo 2
years later in October.

Put fundaes.
These were guys involved in the translation of
‘The Satanic Verses’. The fatwa issued by
Ayatollah Khomeini said “I inform the proud
Muslim people of the world that the author of
the Satanic Verses book, which is against
Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, and all
those involved in its publication who are
aware of its content are sentenced to death.”
As they too were 'involved' in writing the book,
people were trying to kill them.
18) Richard Felton Outcault was an American
comic strip scriptwriter, sketcher and painter
and is considered the inventor of the modern
day comic strips. He worked for the ‘New York
World’ in the 1890s and is famous for his comic
strip “Hogan’s Alley” in which the chief character
was this kid.
In 1896, he defected to the ‘New York Journal’,
attracted by a much larger pay check and
continued to draw the cartoons with this
character, albeit the name had to be changed
due to a lawsuit which awarded the title
“Hogan’s Alley” to the New York World. The
Journal too continued the cartoon with a
different artist.
This was just one of the many occurrences in the What phrase did the
bitter rivalry between the Journal and the World ‘New York Press’ coin
to increase their circulation. to describe the rivalry
between these two
papers?
Both papers used to print sensational news
items and sensationalize all news to
increase their circulation. The New York
Press coined the phrase ‘Yellow Kid
Journalism’ to describe this kind of
journalism aimed at increasing circulation,
which we now call ‘Yellow Journalism’
19) This street was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of
the development of the Burlington Estate, and is named
after Lady Dorothy ____, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington.
It originally ran from Burlington Gardens to Boyle Street
and extended to Conduit Street later. Initially this street
was occupied by military officers and their wives, and
gradually became the place for many upper class gentry.
Some resident include William Pitt the younger and
playwright Richard Sheridan. To keep these upper class
gentry happy, a group of workers had formed some shops
at one end of the street, with some of them having their
shops on this street. In 1846, Henry Poole created a
second opening to his shop which opened to this street
and is considered the ‘Founder of _____’ though their
were other shops before his on this street.

Which street are we talking about?

Savile Row
20) What is this song the inspiration for?

AUDIO
• Mehbooba, sholay
21) Identify the person talking in this audio.
This is from a video posted on the New
York Times site last year, in the obituary
section. ans

Question
When writer Art Buchwald died last year,
The NY Times posted a video obituary
which included an interview with
Buchwald, in which they had recorded him
saying “Hi. I’m Art Buchwald and I just
died” so that they could use it when they
died.
Answer
22) The Book X was not a particularly famous book in America,
selling a few thousand copies a year at best and by no
means a bestseller. However, shortly after the movie Y was
released, amazon.com received lots and lots of buy requests
for this book and was soon sold out, infact they had a one
month backlog of orders for this book X.

Many sarcastic reviews were written by readers for the book like

“________ material, through and through! [...] The tempo, the

choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my
imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to
recover my bearings”

Amazon has since tried to remove such reviews, but new

reviews keep coming up.

Identify the book and the movie.

“The Pet Goat”, often incorrectly called “My
Pet Goat”. This was the book George
Bush was reading in the classroom with
students on 9/11. This was ridiculed in the
movie ‘Fahrenheit 911’, where according
to Micheal Moore, Bush spent 7 minutes
reading the book even after being told of
the attack. This is what resulted in reviews
like the one given.
23) Connect the 2 audio pieces

Audio 1 Audio 2
• Chura Liya hai tumne jo dil ko.. Yaadon ki
baraat and tune inspired by if it’s tuesday
24) What is this a picture of?
Angelina Jolie – the places where she got
her 4 children
25) The famous Royal Shrovetide Football match occurs annually in the
town of Ashbourne in England. It is an all-in football match, where
everyone can participate and is a tradition since the 12th century.
Though it is technically football, kicking, carrying and throwing the ball is
allowed. The 2 teams which play are the Up'Ards and the Down'Ards
distinguished by the people who live on the 2 sides of the river which
runs through the town. The two goal posts are 3 miles apart and the
objective like any football match is to get the ball into the opponents goal
(there is no fixed route, you have to just get through the town and across
the river). Anything is allowed in the game which is usually quite violent,
the only rules being:
1) Committing murder or manslaughter is prohibited. Unnecessary violence
is frowned upon.
2) The ball may not be carried in a motorised vehicle.
3) The ball may not be hidden in a bag, coat or rucksack etc.
4) Cemeteries, churchyards and the town memorial gardens are strictly out
of bounds.
5) Playing after 10 pm is forbidden.

What word commonly used by sports commentators do we get from The

Royal Shrovetide Football Match?
Ashbourne is in the county of Derbyshire
and we get the word ‘Derby’ used to
describe any match between 2 teams from
the same town, which usually results in an
intense rivalry, like the Manchester Derby
between ManUtd and ManCity
26) In the medical field, reflex testing is done in the following
order.
1) Ankle jerk reflex - The nerve roots that supply it
originate from the first and second sacral roots ie S1
and S2.
2) The knee jerk - supplied by nerves from the lumbar
roots L3 and L4.
3) Flexion of the forearm (testing biceps) - The bicep
reflex is supplied by nerves from the cervical roots C5
and C6.
4) Extension of forearm (testing triceps) - The triceps jerk
is supplied by C7 and C8.

What memory aid do students of medicine use to remember

the order in which to carry out this test, and which
nerves are for which reflex?
It is something famous, with a slight
modification. Actually since the reflex
muscles were known long before this, it is
possible that this reflex muscle testing is
the origin for this.
• One, two, buckle my shoe - refers to the ankle jerk
reflex. The nerve roots that supply it originate from the
first and second sacral roots ie S1 and S2.
• Three, four, kneel on the floor - the knee jerk, which is
supplied by nerves from the lumbar roots L3 and L4.
• Five, six, pick up sticks - flexion of the forearm refers
to the bicep. The bicep reflex is supplied by nerves from
the cervical roots C5 and C6.
• Seven, eight, lay them straight - extension of the arm
by the triceps muscle. The triceps jerk is supplied by C7
and C8.
27) Horace Lee Logan was the founder of the
“Louisiana Hayride" radio and later television
program. This program was instrumental in
launching the careers of many budding musicians.
He is however most famous for something which
happened during one of Hayride’s live shows. Most
of the crowd started started rushing towards the
exits after a certain performance, without waiting for
the remaining performances by the other artists. So
Hogan took the mike and to request the crowd to
stay back for the remaining performances.
What happened?
The crowd all wanted to see Elvis Presley
leave and so rushed for the exits. So
Horace Logan said “Please, young
people... Elvis has left the building. He
has gotten in his car and driven away....
Please take your seats”

(rephrase..)
28) When the Los Angeles Herald Examiner
reviewed the movie ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1970,
a famous record (atleast at that time),
which had stood for 30 years was broken.
What was the record?
Citizen Kane. William Randolph Hearst was so
dead against the movie (which painted him in
bad light) and hence forbade any of his
numerous newspapers from publishing reviews
of the movie. So what is the greatest movie of all
time did not have any reviews in the major
newspapers owned by Hearst. Only in 1970 (18
years after Hearst’s death) did the Herald
Examiner review it, it was the first time a Hearst
paper reviewed the movie.
29) Here is the title of a book and all the
chapters in it. Simply fill in the missing
chapter.
 For your eyes only
• From a view to a kill
• For your eyes only
• _____
• Risico
• The Hildebrand Rarity
30) X was reading the script of the movie Y
when she came across a paragraph about
the character Z. X immediately struck out
the paragraph and scribbled something in
the margin. That something created a
whole lot of news late last year.

Identify X,Y,Z and what was written in the

margin.
Dumbledore is gay
31) Donald Sinclair (10 July 1909 – 1981) was the owner
of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, known for his
miserly, eccentric and snobbish behavior and
xenophobic treatment of guests. Once when some
workers came to his hotel for repairs and were having a
tea break, he flew into a fit of rage thinking they were
slacking off. He was also very rude to some guests,
throwing a bus time-table at one when asked for some
information regarding the bus, hid anther guests suitcase
behind a garden wall, thinking it had a bomb (when it had
a ticking alarm clock) and ridiculed an american guest’s
table manners (using the fork in the wrong hand). He
was well known for his ill treatment of his foreign
employees (who gave him cheap labour) and so on.

What is he the inspiration for?

Fawlty Towers from the Python Group –
many of the plot lines are inspired by his
antics
32) _____ are the largest and therefore the
main support beams on the deck of a ship.
Only very violent movements like seas or
a collision could cause them to shake.
This term is hence come to be used by a
sailors when something really and totally
shocking unexpected or scary occurs to
them, causing the usually strong nerved
sailors to lose their cool.
Shiver me Timbers
33) In the UK, the national Canine Defence league
called on all dog owners to observe a minute silence.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
animals (RSPCA) received many protests even
before the public announcement of this.
Animal rights groups with many members of the public
protested outside a certain embassy.
Others demonstrated in front of the UN.
However some lab researchers in the US initially
supported the action, and later opposed it…

What are we talking about here, and what are the

people protesting about?
The Death of Laika, who was sent into
space but was sure to die as technology to
get her back alive was not available.
34) This company considered themselves to
be leaders in both Analog and Digital
Systems, and chose their name to
represent the intergration of both analog
and digital technology. Which company?
35) (video) Simpsons video – whats the
reference here?

Video
The entire scene is a reference to the
Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds’, and the last
part is a reference to Alfred Hitckcock
cameo in the movie – fat bald guy just
walking across the screen…